It was very challenging in terms of making sure that everyone is distinct. Also, we wanted to have some Asian influences as well, so that it really i….

There's a level of action unlike anything else on television. AMC always makes distinctive television and I think that certainly fits that requiremen….

Also, when we did "Smallville," we didn't have an opportunity to interact with people who watched the show. And see what they had to say and listen t….

We got the idea of nature almost encroaching. It's incredibly lush, incredibly green, we really popped the colors, lots of deep reds and the greens. ….

There's always someone kicking guns. We wanted ["Badlands"] to be a world without guns and bullets, where martial arts was the form of fighting and d….

I think we're always trying to avoid tropes. And I think that "Game of Thrones" has almost made killing people a cliche. For us, it wasn't about that….

Also, having grown up in England, you walk around London, you're passing relics that are a thousand years old - the wall of London is a thousand year….

I think that people are really hungry for original content. I think there's a sense of reboots and remakes, and we're lacking in any sense of origina….

Audiences are hungry for something different. With binge-watching, they're hungry for interesting content they haven't seen before, and they want to ….

There are a couple of specific things about the show [Into the Badlands]. We didn't want to do a contemporary show, which is always "Chinese cop come….

It's [Into the Badlands] something that's very, very different and I think that's why it divided critics initially because they didn't understand it ….

[Into the Badlands] wasn't going to be two days of a splinter unit at the end of the shoot. The action and the martial arts had to be integral to the….

We liked the idea of introducing the audience to the world, and to show how much they had accepted or were confused by it. It was gratifying to see t….

We knew Terry Brooks' work, but we hadn't read the Shannara books. So, they sent us the book to read and we just loved the story and the characters. ….

Another thing we wanted to do, a lot of shows or movies that are in the future or the post-apocalyptic are very bleached, desaturated desert environm….

People want to get immersed and lost in a world. They want to lean in and figure it out, and that's true of both of these shows. You don't know quite….